Illinois · Private foundation
Kaufman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $701k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $104,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Kaufman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $698k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $624k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $738k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $230k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $155k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $130k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $66k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Town School of Folk Music | $322,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $255,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $190,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Equal Hope | $58,500 | 5 | 2% |
| New Trier Educational Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($803k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kaufman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kaufman Family Foundation
- How much does Kaufman Family Foundation give?
- Kaufman Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $700,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kaufman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are Kaufman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Old Town School of Folk Music ($323k), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($255k), Chicago Symphony Orchestra ($190k).
- Does Kaufman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kaufman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kaufman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation.
- Where is Kaufman Family Foundation based?
- Kaufman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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